1533.08
Scientific, educational or rehabilitation collection permits.

Except as otherwise provided by division rule, any person
desiring to collect or possess wild animals that are protected by law or their
nests or eggs for scientific study, school instruction, other educational uses,
or rehabilitation shall make an annual application to the chief of the division
of wildlife for a wild animal permit on a form furnished by the chief. Each
applicant for a wild animal permit, other than an applicant desiring to
rehabilitate wild animals, shall pay an annual fee of twenty-five dollars for
each permit. No fee shall be charged to an applicant desiring to rehabilitate
wild animals. The chief may issue to the applicant a permit to take, possess,
and transport at any time and in a manner that is acceptable to the chief
specimens of wild animals protected by law or their nests and eggs for
scientific study, school instruction, other educational uses, or rehabilitation
and under any additional rules recommended by the wildlife council. Upon the
receipt of a permit, the holder may take, possess, and transport those wild
animals in accordance with the permit.

Each holder of a permit engaged in collecting or who possesses
such wild animals shall carry the permit at all times and shall exhibit it upon
demand to any peace officer, as defined in section
2935.01 of the Revised Code, or to
the owner or person in lawful control of the land upon which the permit holder
is collecting or possesses the wild animals. Failure to so carry or exhibit the
permit constitutes an offense under this section.

Each permit holder shall keep a daily record of all specimens
collected or possessed under the permit and the disposition of the specimens
and shall exhibit the daily record to any official of the division upon demand.

Each permit shall remain in effect for one year from the date
of issuance unless it is revoked sooner by the chief.

All moneys received as fees for the issuance of a wild animal
collecting permit shall be transmitted to the director of natural resources to
be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the fund created by section
1533.15 of the Revised Code.